Hello Holger! The version of Smalltalk I tested was the one included with Ubuntu 20.04.
Is the newer, linked to version you're suggesting 3.2.91 by any chance? Many thanks, Gary On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 2:11 AM Holger Freyther <hol...@freyther.de> wrote: > Hi Gary! > > How did you get GNU Smalltalk 3.2.5? On the surface this sounds like a > problem already fixed[1] in the development branch of GNU Smalltalk? Could > you try to cherry-pick this[1] and see if the problem persists? > > thank you > holger > > [1] > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/smalltalk.git/commit/?id=72ada189aba0283c551ead16635c1983968080b8 > > > > On 26. Jan 2021, at 10:53, Gary Highberger <gary.highber...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi Help-Smalltalk, > > > > If processes aren't supported in 3.2.5 then read no further :-) > > > > Forks or Delays might be broken in 3.2.5. I totally hope I'm wrong or > that > > there's a clean workaround. > > > > For what I can tell, Forked* infinite loop processes containing a Delay > > won't run.* > > > > Links to two Smalltalk programs based on an infinite loop, Delay, fork, > > example from the Bluebook follow: > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/rs4iobnhh6vzmc4/tst.st?dl=0 > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zybbef44e45w3c/tstX.st?dl=0 > > > > At the Linux prompt enter gst tst.st to observe desired behavior. > > > > At the Linux prompt enter gst tstX.st to see the failed fork behavior. > > > > Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated! > > > > Thank you, > > > > Gary Highberger > >
